Category: Cosmetics & Personal Care
South America Cosmetics & Personal Care
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Uruguay Hair Care
... comprised the review period. While sales declines earlier in the review period were due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on demand for beauty and personal care generally as social distancing meant that there ... Read More
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Uruguay Oral Care
... Throughout the year, huge numbers of consumers continued to cross the border into Argentina to purchase a wide range of fmcg, including oral care products, in order to take advantage of significantly lower prices. At ... Read More
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Uruguay Skin Care
... relying on the services of professional beauticians. This trend began earlier in the review period at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the strict approach taken to social distancing deprived many local consumers of ... Read More
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Uruguay Beauty and Personal Care
... erode demand for products distributed through official retail channels. The impact of this is seen most clearly in deodorants, bath and shower, hair care, men's grooming, and oral care, all of which experienced drops in ... Read More
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Uruguay Deodorants
... the main reason for declining demand for deodorants is the rampant cross-border trade in these products. Specifically, many consumers in Uruguay across the border into Argentina to buy deodorants, among a wide range of fmcg, ... Read More
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Uruguay Bath and Shower
... and neighbouring Argentina, where the prices charged for a wide variety of fmcg tend to be considerably lower. This price difference has encouraged hundreds of thousands of Uruguayans to regularly cross the border and buy ... Read More
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Uruguay Fragrances
... socialising outside of the home on a daily basis. Although volume growth is slowing down with each passing year as the category recovers from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation for brands active ... Read More
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Uruguay Colour Cosmetics
... return to working and socialising outside of the home on a daily basis presented local women with opportunities to wear a variety of colour cosmetics more often, including eye make-up and facial make-up, two categories ... Read More
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Uruguay Mass Beauty and Personal Care
... all suffered significant drops in demand during the year as volume sales performances were even worse than what was seen during 2022. These sales decreases are closely linked to cross-border shopping, with a significant proportion ... Read More
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Uruguay Depilatories
... and women’s razors and blades. However, it should be noted that this decline in demand applies only to legitimate retail sales of products distributed by official suppliers and that falling volume sales are due to ... Read More
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Uruguay Premium Beauty and Personal Care
... to rise steadily. In particular, sales growth is being driven by premium sun care, premium colour cosmetics and premium fragrances as the consumer base for premium brands continues to expand, fuelling a premiumisation trend as ... Read More
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Uruguay Sun Care
... demand recorded earlier the review period was due almost entirely to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which discouraged people from spending time outside of the home, the robust recovery seen in sales during 2022 ... Read More
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Uruguay Men's Grooming
... premium men’s fragrances registered increasing demand. This positive performance can be attributed largely to the increasing trend among local men for paying more attention to their personal grooming. In fact, in per capita spending on ... Read More
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Ecuador Bath and Shower
... can be attributed largely to the declining use of products such as hand sanitisers, bar soap and liquid soap as the elevated levels of personal hygiene that emerged among the population of Ecuador at the ... Read More
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Ecuador Deodorants
... make ends meet despite working full-time. While the country’s official unemployment rate is relatively low at just 5.2%, the significant numbers of underemployed and underpaid people living in the country remains a major problem. The ... Read More
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Ecuador Mass Beauty and Personal Care
... 28% of value sales in this category are accounted for by direct selling companies. Direct selling players were among the companies most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and therefore they have also been the ones ... Read More
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Ecuador Sun Care
... child-specific sun care. A number of factors contributed to this exceptional performance. On the one hand, the fact that local people are consulting with dermatologists more often has exposed the need for sun protection to ... Read More
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Ecuador Colour Cosmetics
... the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, some consumers were still wearing hygienic face masks some of the time during 2022, which meant that they could not also wear colour cosmetics such as facial make up and ... Read More
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Ecuador Hair Care
... this context, for example, categories such as salon professional hair care have seen significant sales growth and this applies not only to the beauty salons where these products are sold, but also chained players in ... Read More
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Ecuador Skin Care
... range of factors that have continued to drive rising consumption. On the one hand, the global trend for using facial care products to prevent premature ageing and have skin that is clear, smooth and obviously ... Read More
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Ecuador Oral Care
... the best sales performances. Against the backdrop of the adverse and complicated economic scenario that Ecuador has been experiencing for the past several years, many local consumers have become much more focused on saving money ... Read More
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Ecuador Baby and Child-Specific Products
... low price, has played a key role in reenergising the category, boosting demand in the midst of a challenging trading scenario due the complicated economic situation in Ecuador. The advent of these Chinese brands has ... Read More
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Ecuador Depilatories
... in the performance, resulting in the brand more than tripling its sales over the course of the review period. In response to the slight decline seen in demand during 2023, during the third quarter of ... Read More
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Ecuador Fragrances
... the clash between the need for direct contact between sales agents and their customers and efforts to minimise physical contact between people at the peak of the pandemic, the leading direct selling companies in beauty ... Read More
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Ecuador Beauty and Personal Care
... in the country. All of these factors combined have generally had a negative effect on consumption, making consumers much more cautious in their spending, especially on non-essential products, and this was evident in the prevailing ... Read More
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